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I Built the SQLite of Vector Search in ~120KB of Pure C & SIMD: 3,000x Faster Cold Starts and Zero Dependencies for AI Agents
β‘ I Built the SQLite of Vector Search in ~120KB of Pure C & SIMD
If you're building LLM agents, local RAG systems, or CLI tools in Python today, you've likely faced the vector database dependency nightmare .
To store a few thousand embeddings from a conversation history or document chunks, standard tutorials tell you to pip install chromadb or install FAISS.
Here is what happens under the hood:
Over 35 transitive dependencies are downloaded into your virtual environment ...
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